G Is For Grace

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2007-11-11T14:11:18Z

HEY GUYS PREVIOUS POST HAD A TYPO!! my blog add is http://gracethequeen.wordpress.com the other add has an extra full stop somewhere so thsi is the correct one ok ok ok ok thankszxzxxz sexytimez

READ THIS GUYS!

2007-10-11T10:24:55Z

hey all! I HAVE MOVED!

http://.gracethequeen.wordpress.com

pls go there from now on! it's sexytimez!

gisforgrace @ 2007-08-17T02:44:00

2007-08-16T15:45:51Z

But I only just realised how effortless it is to lose friends; a message unsent, a phone left in the hook, a date not met - and before you know it, you get used to it. And it scares me, because some people I really cannot afford to lose.

Very true. And very sad. :(

Sentimental throes

2007-08-13T16:02:43Z

I want to break every clock

The hands of time would never move again

We could stay in this moment

American Chocolate Chip

2007-07-21T17:05:09Z

Today began rather uneventfully. Rainy saturday morning, coupled with piano lesson early at 10am was enough to make me start feeling blue.

It got progressively better, though. Met up with the FISHY today and we got free ice-cream! oh such nasty little freeloaders, i like i like! Yeah we really had the chance to catch up with so much stuff today, including some shopping at that extremely evil and horrible place of a forever21. i hate that place i swear, everytime i walk in i come out with a shopping bag! LUCKILY TODAY WAS AN EXCEPTION. PHEW! didn't manage to find anything i liked this time.

Okay, is it just me or is it very mundane to blog about what you did during the day? Somehow i just feel too lazy to recount all the other happenings, not because they were insignificant, but because i'm.. well. l.a.z.y.

Ohboy.

Okay tennis with eric tomorrow night i am going to pwn his ass again. i hope i'm not speaking too soon.

Buffet economics

2007-07-16T16:21:30Z

Got this off this dude, Darren's blog. I think it makes for an entertaining read!

After an awe inspiring show from Ernest, I’ve thought of something : It would be cool, had I the requisite brain and expertise, to write a paper on the economics of all-you-can-eat buffets. How does one maximize utility?

A few incoherent ideas:

Straightforwardly, people would unselectively eat as much as they could in order to maximize the value of their money. Equal, plentiful amounts of every dish on offer. Increase in quantity eaten translates directly to decrease in cost of each unit eaten.

Arguably, though, you could eat as much of your favourite dishes in that buffet as you possibly could, in order to maximize your utility even further. So, someone who likes fried chicken far more than fried vegetables would enjoy greater utility by eating more fried chicken than fried vegetables, rather than equal amounts of both.

However, marginal returns diminishes. after the fifteenth piece of fried chicken, having a bite of vegetables would probably increase one’s utility more than the sixteenth piece of fried chicken.

In addition, one could subscribe to external regulators of value. These are the people who will go into an all-you-can-eat buffet and eat no carb dishes like pasta, rice etc, because these are cheaper, fill you up faster, and are therefore less valuable in terms of ratio of stomach space to dollar spent.

Relatedly, there are those who maximize their utility by heaping their plate with shellfish, caviar, oysters, pate, peking duck, and all things expensive and rare. Rationally this is to do with maximizing unit value of return on each dollar spent. A $5 buffet spent eating pasta is “less valuable” than a $5 buffet spent eating scrumptious dim sum.

Conflict arises, however, when one actually prefers pasta to siew mai. Which would increase one’s utility more?

Also, do any one of these methods of increasing utility increase utility more than the others? Even if one prefers pasta to hak gao, i.e. eating pasta would increase one’s utility more than eating duck, could one’s utility actually be increased more by eating dim sum simply because one knows that duck is more expensive than pasta?

How do desserts fit into all this?

If anyone economically-inclined ever writes a paper on this, please do let me know. Heck, if researching this paper allows me to peruse all-you-can-eat buffets all over the world, I’ll write the damned thing myself.

got tagged! twice boohoo.

2007-07-15T16:27:20Z

RULES OF THE GAME:
Each player of the game starts off with ten weird things or habits or known facts about yourself. People who get tagged must write it in a blog of their own ten weird things or habits or little known facts as well as state this rule clearly. At the end you must choose 6 people to be tagged and list their names. No tag backs!

ONE: I secretly want to be a superhero haha.

TWO: I hate sugarcane juice.

THREE: I have a thing for guys with hot veins.

FOUR: I have a major weakness for footwear.

FIVE: I'm a very messy person but sometimes when i see stuff lying around i get so irritated i have to clear it up.

SIX: I can't watch scary shows cos they really scare me haha.

SEVEN: I am actually quite shy. ( I AM NOT KIDDING!)

EIGHT: I hate all sports that make you dirty, sweaty is a given but not dirty.

NINE: When i was a kid i used to think there were monsters under my bed.

TEN: I secretly want to be known for being some smartass straight-A student but of course we all know that will never happen.

okay six people!! Fai, Chye, Shao, Floyd, Dan, Shaunyen! haha okay i dont even know if shaunyen has a blog! this thing is so annoying, cannot tag back haha.

LOVE

2007-07-12T15:51:47Z

In response to the previous post, and the amazing quantity of responses that it actually managed to elicit (heheh), i conclude that love is of quite significant relevance to all of us.

SO ANYWAY. Based on all your responses plus observations and that wonderful convo that day with warrioru!..., here's my take on love.

1.Love is something special, something which not everyone finds in their lifetime.
2.Love is more than just a feeling in the air.
3.Love is more than chemistry.
4.Love is being there for each other through thick and thin.
5.Love is quarrelling and making up.
6.Love is growing old together.
7.Love is watching your bodies fall apart together.
8.Love is mind blowing sex hahahahahaha.
9.Love is elusive.
10.Love is waking up on a Sunday morning to a kiss.
11.Love is sitting in the front yard with your husband at 70.
12.Love is walking hand in hand down the street.
13.Love is when you fall down and he picks you up.
14.Love is when he says ''i'll do the dishes'', and gives you a massage when you had a bad day at work.
15.Love is when you do vice versa.
16.Love is offering each other full support.
17.Love is patient.
18.Love is kind.
19.Love is about making sacrifices.
20.Love is kids ( uh i guess).
21.Love is when your neighbours, friends and relatives are jealous because you've got something they don't.
22.Love is that fleeting glance you share that no one else understands.
23.Love is a warm comforting shoulder.
24.Love wont pay the bills.
25.Love creates and kills.
26.Love hurts.
27.Love is blinding.
28.Love is giving in even when maybe, you're in the right.
29.Love is unfathomable.
30.Love is deeper than an ocean and higher than a mountain.
31.Love is simple.
32.Love is special.
33.Love is refreshing, exciting.
34.Love makes you want to sing and dance and fly.
35.Love can also make you cry.
36.Love is about a lifetime.
37.Love is spontaneous.
38.Love is lasting.
39.Love is full of inexplicable contradictions.
40.Love is stupid.
41.Love is FUBAR ( Fucked up beyond any recognition)
42.Love is man's greatest weakness.
43.Love is also man's greatest strength.
44.Love is saying sorry to soothe matters.
45.Love is a silent force that not many are capable of controlling.
46.Love can make you or it can break you.
47.Love is two bleary eyed souls in the morning smiling at each other for no reason.
48.Love is indescribable.
49.Love is like a butterfly. ( Held too loosely, it flies away. Held too tightly, it's crushed)
50.Love is personal.
51.Love is a magnificent feeling that is misunderstood by many.
52.Love makes life meaningful.
53.Love is hard to find but easy to give. ( actually i think this is debatable)

Love is..................................

Love is beyond me.
Love is something which I've yet to experience. I wonder if i'm ready to experience it, even.

To love is to be human.

There you go, collection of thoughts from various people and me. :)
Tell me what you think!

gisforgrace @ 2007-06-24T00:13:00

2007-06-23T15:14:35Z

what is love, i wonder?

anyone got any answers?

lazybones

2007-06-12T08:59:15Z

OWCH. in capitals is exactly how i feel right now. Ow ow ow ow ow!!!!!! This is what happens to you when you dont exercise for an entire month and a half, and then you think you're very clever and go and play three hours of slack tennis. (the key word here is ''slack''.) Ohman I have officially become tres unfit! My whole body's aching now from my head all the way down to every single one of my ten little toes thank you very much! Unspeakable agony, that.

Eh, it really hurts okay. I ~~want~~ need a masseuse BADLY. My muscles, or rather what's left of them, feel like they're on fire. LAWL i'm sucha loser, get so tired and achy after a mere three hours of slackslackslack tennis and there wasn't even any physical and basically i didn't even run for the ball much. Or how about barely. Or maybe more accurately, not at all. Hahaha, it's true though, what they say about tennis being one of the most physical sports around because it works every single muscle in your body just as hard. I AGREE. I ACHE EVERYWHERE.

I is tired, i go take nap first. Hopefully i wake up in time for dinner lol starvinggg.

internet woes

2007-05-24T13:47:21Z

argh. my very long and juicy entry which i very coherently typed just now disappeared because the internet disconnected, so i am angry. stupid wireless crap!

right, incidentally, i can't really remember much of what i was saying a mere 5min ago, so i suppose i shall just have to forget it. what a pity, it was a really amazing paragraph of prose. A masterpiece, really.

Okay okay not really, I'm just sore about my entire long and visually satisfying entry being *poof!* deleted just like that :(

I need retail therapy.

grace and the housework

2007-05-21T05:34:39Z

As everyone would know by now, my maid's contract recently ended and she's gone home for good (ie, no more awesome food for you!) yes, and no more awesome food for me either. In fact, it's almost no more any food for me. My daily diet now usually consists of sandwiches/instant noodles/fruits/yakult... yeah you get the picture. Now i know you'd probably be thinking, hey she gets to go on a diet! she can lose weight!

but NO! it doesn't work that way! see, when you're constantly deprived of decent food for about five days a week, when friday night and the weekend comes round, you tend to binge with your friends. AND that includes the zillions of sticks of the Dove chocolate that i was happily munching on at ahru's house last thursday, friday and saturday! AHH! it's a rather dire state of affairs. I don't know how i'm going to survive for another half a year or so without proper food!! And exercise too, come to think of it. I haven't touched my racket since A div ended, and I haven't done any running or whatsoever simply because i've been sick since May the 1st, thank you very much. I'm much better already though, and the cough seems to be fading off ( i hope!) so i'll hopefully be able to start exercising a little maybe at the end of the week. Must call coach shaun for private once june comes around.

Now all of that was me sidetracking and I still haven't come to the point of this entry yet. But here it is. now, naturally, since i've no maid now, there's got to be someone to do the housework right? Logically speaking, it should be my mom, but no, she'll never do such a thing, so okay look around the family for the next ''free-est'' person to be found and ta-dah! Grace Tan En Hui! Since I'm not schooling now and all, the mother very very naturally thinks i'd be the perrfect person to do some housework, because you know, i've got so much time anyways! ( i beg to differ, but whatever). actually i suppose the whole thing is mainly my fault, because they were initially planning on getting a new maid or renewing the old one's contract, but after my mom incidentally happened to find out that i didn't know how to turn on the stove, didn't know how to iron a shirt, or how to turn on the washing machine, or how to sweep the floor CLEAN, or how to wash dishes properly, or how to cut a fruit, or how to boil water, etc the list goes on..... yeah when she found out all that, she flipped. err. hahaha.

in other words, she's currently undertaking project domesticate grace episode ONE. it's working a little, i mean, all i have to do is hang up the laundry after it's washed and iron it when it's dry, so it's not very much work, but thats still quite a fair bit for a lazy person like me. Needless to say, I still dont know how to cut a fruit or turn on the stove and do other associated household chores because we still have a part time cleaner who comes in once or twice a week to clean the house properly, but well, i made SOME progress! Hah! SO, i'm one up on all you people out there who still don't know how to iron a shirt i bet.

i digress, i'm eating the hugest mushroom i have ever seen right now. it's so large that it makes up a proper meal.
yeah if you're wondering how big that is, trust me, its big.

Bye, imma eat my mushroom.

Of peaches and chips

2007-05-12T11:33:01Z

I'm addicted to canned peaches. Even though the fruit juice stall auntie in cj sells a single slice of canned peach for 40cents which is a complete ripoff, i'm still hooked enough to buy 4 or 5 at one go. Provided i have enough coins of course. Jasmine likes to steal my peaches when i buy them. Must be careful of her. HAHAHA. Maybe now that she knows they're canned peaches and therefore are loaded to the brim with sugar (from all the syrup and everything), she'll stop stealing them from me. Fat chance i think.

Ohoh I've got to cut this entry short. Its 730pm now and I've to meet jasmine at bishan mrt at 830pm to go to randall's place. I have neither showered nor chosen my clothes ooooohhh time to rush again, me no like.

I'll do this again soon!

SEAN FARIS

2007-05-10T15:46:14Z

Sean Faris is so hot hot hot hot hot haha everyone should just go and look at some pictures of him! I wanted to post one up here but I realised that I dont know how to use the photo thingummy and I'm too lazy to learn at the moment so maybe sometime soon. HAHA i was trawling Sean Faris fan sites just now (like some crazy 13-year old hormone ravaged teen) and I saw so many nice shots of him! *orgasms*

Okay but there were fugly pictures of him too, to be fair. Omg he's really really REALLY hot, if i find some hot boy in Australia who looks like that ah. ZOMG ZOMG. This is like a crazily random post because I have never blogged on the hotness of anyone before. Oh except for one occasion in the dim and distant past when I said the guy who played Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter was hot. And I still think he's hot, just that, out of sight out of mind lah. No news about him whatsoever and I havent seemed to have seen him in any movies lately? Hmmm. Wonder what happened to him. Must go and trawl some Cedric Diggory fan sites. LOL.

Anyway for the benefit of anyone who happens to see this and is wondering who the hell sean faris is (not very well known,) Go rent this DVD from video-ezy the show's called 'Sleepover' i think. I remember during the december holidays last year (2006), Ru Ya Janine and I felt like watching chick flicks so we rented that not knowing what it was, and ta-dah! We discovered Sean Faris! Stumbled on him pretty much by accident. I remember we were all screaming like crazy whenever he appeared on screen HAHAHAHA omg those were good times :(

Anyway, Sean Faris aside. I've got a nasty cough which doesnt seem to show any signs of letting up after DAYS DAYS DAYS already, really getting on my nerves! It's rather trying to be unable to go for 10min without having at least one severe bout of coughing :( Oh and I went back to cj today, joyjoy! Really miss school plenty. Or rather, school friends. I don't miss the monotony of lectures and tutorials, neither do I miss crazy homework deadlines, mugging for tests (or not mugging for tests and failing them all as a result), incessant nagging from teachers about SKIRT LENGTHS (zomg) and hair colour... and yeah. It's just all the people that make school tolerable. And that says alot about them already. MISS YOU GUYS I HOPE I CAN GO BACK TO SCH AGAIN SOON.

Tomorrow, I shall attempt to cover 6hours of piano in a day. It'll be my first successful attempt if it really comes to pass haha. To spice things up a little, I've set a penalty, if I don't complete those 6hours, I can't go out tomorrow night. WHOA.
Ok better wake up at 730 tomorrow morning, yeah right big joke as if i will, ok 8am. ok 830. 830 SET. Then i'll have enough time :)

Wow this entry is so long Imma stop here because anything more I have to say is all crap and random nonsense already. Oh oh one last thing, saw CKD today after like almost two whole weeks SO NICE SEEING HIM HAHA.

okay toodles!

Koff koff

2007-05-08T05:20:00Z

Got cough :(

Missing everyone in school very badly. Suffering from school-sickness. Haha. Wonder if I should pop by today after piano lesson? And give everyone a big surprise teehee but I don't even know what time they finish today and they might be long gone before I get to school. Hmmm.

We shall see, we shall see.

The cough is killing meeee!!! I swear every breath I take is like sucha huge effort. Maybe I shouldn't go back to school today because I know people will make me laugh for sure and then I'll cough more lol! Oh damn time flies. It's 1.10pm already, and i've to be at mrs see's at 3pm. That means, I've to get on th 156 by 215 latest, which means I have to leave the house by around 2, and I haven't even bathed or gone to collect my scales manual from the photocopy shop yet! Aaaahh! Okay running late as usual. got to go chase after the time before it gets away from me! Toodles!

blogblogblog

2007-05-05T14:49:22Z

okay, i was initially planning to do abit of photoblogging for this entry, but since I'm using the father's lappie, none of my pictures are on his com and therefore it is officially pointless to photoblog. It doesn't help that ahru's com's connexion is a little screwed and the photos she's trying to send me can't be sent over. oh damn oh damn. hahaha.

On another note, i had to miss the bbq at ben's house on friday, BOOHOOHOO!! Since it was my aunt's birthday... ohwell. My parents were in charge of the cake and so i suggested getting em from Randall, since his are so damn good. General consensus was that the two cakes he baked were impressive. and especially from a 17 year old. Randall if you ever see this, YOUR CAKES ARE THE SEX ESPECIALLY THE CHEESECAKE OKAY BALLZ.
Judging from what i heard from Ru though, i missed out on alot of fun at ben's place =(
OHWELL.

Ben is leaving so soon lah. I can't believe this is actually happening. It's like all, one by one. Part of me still feels like I'm living in some sort of weird dream and then Imma wake up and then everything will go back to normal again. No more talk of everyone flying away to here and there (including myself). I would find myself back in school again. (actually not such a good idea because im not exactly coping that well in jc hehhehheh).
And... yeah. Just everything back to normal and boring.

I heard a very shocking piece of news today. Hope it turns out alright for you friend. Really hope you get a second chance.

UH i want to eat dumpling soup.

oyster omelette

2007-05-03T15:15:53Z

Fuck the oyster omelette on tuesday man. Thanks to that, both xinya and I have come down with..... FOOD POISONING! oh damn. this is the 3rd time in TWO years that I've gotten food poisoning, and I never used to get it like this before! Never ever! Did i remember to mention that i really really hate puking? It sucks to the max, i start tearing and my stomach cramps and I feel like my insides are on fire and like i'm gonna diee.

STUPID ASSHOLE WHO SOLD US FUCKED UP OYSTER OMELETTE. haha Im like so angry with the guy now what the hell. I don't even know what I'm talking about. So anyway. Spent the entire day being bedridden, sleeping and sleeping, and now I can't sleep at all. My food intake for the day was a grand total of one slice of bread, a quarter bowl of porridge for lunch, and half a bowl of porridge for dinner, omg. I couldnt even bring myself to finish the porridge, it was that bad.

Oh, and the DOCTOR yesterday ah.. gave me a freaking WRONG diagnosis! Told me I had gastric flu and gave me all sorts of gastric flu medicine ( the only thing that helped was the nausea related one i think), and up till half an hour ago when i found out xinya was having the same problem, i was assuming i had gastric flu. But NO. it's food poisoning to the max ok. Even had a jab and my arm is still hurting slightly from it.

Haha okay I realise that this post is full of nothing but complaints, therefore i shall stop right here and come back when I've got more positive things to say. Its just... food poisoning really REALLY gets on my nerves.

till next time!!

Mega achievement

2007-05-02T06:49:59Z

Finally, for the first time in my life, I've set up a blog with 100% of my own pure effort! WOW WOW! I'm feeling really really achieved and accomplished now. Yay Grace is not a loser she can use technology okay!

Anyway. That aside, its back to blogging for me after the really long hiatus i took. Since I'll be going away and all that, it's better if i have a blog, now isn't it?

Nothing much to comment on just yet, only that practising for 6hours a day is turning out to be alot more difficult then i thought. DISCIPLINE!! Yeah I know I need that. Lots of stuff for me to go through, and plenty of work for me to do actually, so I'm actually busier than what I'm commonly believed to be.... Haha. No worries though, I'll still be able to work around the more-than-occasional lunches, dinners, teas, shopping, you name it.

God please help me to be more focused. I am so bad at this.
That's all for now, be back REAL SOON i hope!